A deepening power struggle within the Hilma af Klint Foundation has erupted over the future of the artist’s legacy, with its chair calling for her paintings to be sequestered in a private temple ...
It's tough to remember there was a time when museums didn't show Hilma af Klint's work widely, when she wasn't the subject of ...
Hilma af Klint was a painter and mystic—a woman for whom the earthly plane and existing artistic expression evidently did not suffice. Hers were “big strides,” playwright Kate Scelsa told me, in ...
The artist’s great-grandnephew and foundation board chair stressed in an interview with Hyperallergic that the works should only be seen by “spiritual seekers.” Photograph of the Swedish artist Hilma ...
It’s a shame that the two preeminent stars of abstract art—Hilma af Klint and Wassily Kandinsky—never met in person. At one point, Swedish-born af Klint and Russian-born Kandinsky were miles apart ...
At the Museum of Modern Art, a watercolor herbarium from 1919 and 1920 flaunts the literal side, and even the preachiness, of abstraction’s superheroine. By Walker Mimms From 1856 until the 1960s, ...
The artist’s large abstract canvases are well worth seeing in person, with their vivid, startling and nuanced colors and subjects that are the stuff of dreams. An installation view of “Hilma af Klint” ...
In 2019, astronomer Britt Lundgren of the University of North Carolina Asheville visited the Guggenheim Museum in New York City to take in an exhibit of the works of Swedish painter Hilma af Klint.